Calcutta India-1946: Vintage 8mm Footage Of Storks And A Young Elephant At The Zoo

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Calcutta India

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Vintage 8mm Footage Of Storks And A Young Elephant At... — Clip Details

CALCUTTA INDIA-1946: Vintage 8mm film captures a group of large storks, likely marabou storks, walking and foraging in a grassy enclosure at a zoo. The footage, shot through a dark frame, shows the birds in a naturalistic setting with trees and a wooden fence in the background. The scene transitions to a young elephant walking in a shaded enclosure. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century wildlife documentation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124755064

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$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 1
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Calcutta, India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Calcutta zoo footage suited for documentary or museum edits needing period animal-enclosure material from amateur 8mm travel filming.
Period detail: The open animal pens, wooden fencing, soft color fade and 8mm handling may show a mid-1940s visitor record of a zoological garden in Calcutta.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing storks through dark film-frame edges before shifting attention to a young elephant in shade.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include large stork-like birds, grassy zoo ground, wire or pole enclosure structures, trees, a wooden fence, and a young elephant.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, slight motion blur and dark gate edges that give the footage a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, zoo transition, or brief atmospheric beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents zoo animals and visitor-era enclosure design without showing people, signs, or identifiable public events in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but animal-location identification, zoo property context, copyright status and any release needs should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Calcutta zoo 8mm footage, India home movie zoo animals, storks at zoo, and young elephant archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Calcutta footage, then other 1946 India zoo or city material, then broader vintage zoo and wildlife home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Calcutta zoo footage appears to show large stork-like birds standing and foraging in a grassy enclosure with trees and fencing. — Stork-like birds stand in a grassy zoo enclosure.

In the Calcutta zoo scene, several stork-like birds appear across the grass while a larger bird stands near the right side of the frame. — Several stork-like birds are visible across the enclosure.

The 1946 Calcutta zoo footage shows multiple stork-like birds near vertical enclosure poles, with grass and trees in the background. — Stork-like birds gather near enclosure poles.

A young elephant appears in a shaded Calcutta zoo enclosure, walking near a low wooden fence with bright daylight beyond. — A young elephant moves through a shaded enclosure.

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